Dustin Lance Black has paid tribute to Harvey Milk’s speech writer Frank M. Robinson following his death at the age of 87.
Robinson passed away on Monday in San Francisco, California. No further details about his death have been released.
A noted sci-fi novelist and journalist, Robinson is best remembered for penning rousing speeches for Harvey Milk, the first openly gay candidate to be elected into office.
The politician’s story was told in 2008′s Oscar-winning film Milk, starring by Sean Penn, and the movie’s screenwriter Black has remembered the man who helped the gay activist speak to the masses.
In a post on his Facebook.com page, he writes, “This morning Frank M. Robinson left this world. He was Milk’s speech writer, an acclaimed sci-fi author and was like a father to me. To say the earth feels made of quicksand lately makes it sound too solid. Frank, I’ll miss your thunderous laughter, your protective love and your razor sharp writer’s mind.”
His death comes just weeks after Black lost his mother.
Robinson, who made a cameo appearance in the movie, will also be remembered for his books The Power, which was transformed for the big screen in 1968, and The Glass Inferno, which was combined with Richard Martin Stern’s The Tower and adapted into 1974′s The Towering Inferno starring Steve McQueen and Paul Newman.

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